Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

Help Paylocity enhance communication and enable employees to connect, collaborate, and create from anywhere with a position in Product & Technology!

Want to develop the strategies and principles needed to deliver compelling software? Join our team and help us enhance our all-in-one software platform, elevate our one-of-a-kind technology, and improve the employee experience.

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We are committed to building a world-class team by hiring top talent globally. To ensure compliance, we use an Employer of Record model.

The Paylocity Program Management community is pioneering technologies to bring businesses closer together at a global scale. Our team’s mission is to enable Product & Technology to close the gaps between current performance and our short & long-term company goals. Our Program Managers work at the cross-section between technical execution and business strategy and are expected to partner closely with Engineering and Product teams. Being a Program Manager at Paylocity means driving impact by delivering measurable results across a wide range of areas.

You will be responsible for guiding high-level goals and roadmaps, monitoring and communicating progress, and defining functional requirements for new products, features, and infrastructure needs. It also means having a strong technical background, knowledge of data center and technical infrastructure, and the experience to effectively collaborate across functions and organizations to deliver impact. You will be leading technical strategy and execution on the company-wide platforms and infrastructure that are used across the company. Teams span across product, engineering, design, infrastructure, IT, marketing, ops, sales and more. The role will be all-remote.

Program Manager Responsibilities

Develop and manage end-to-end technical product and infrastructure delivery plans and ensure on-time delivery.
Lead and coordinate efforts across various cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with overarching program goals and facilitating seamless execution of projects.
Help define the roadmap and long-term strategy of the teams that you are working with.
Design measurements to track impact and drive internal process improvements.
Articulate the technology, requirements, goals and milestones of your team.
Develop and manage end-to-end project plans to ensure on-time delivery, provide day-to-day coordination, and quality assurance for tasks.
Identify gaps, dependencies and develop mitigation strategies.
Move fast in a flat organization by working in concert with technical program managers, product managers and engineers across to establish a shared vision for at-scale delivery.
Ongoing communication of planning, project status, issues and risks in a timely fashion to stakeholders.
Build bridges with product and infrastructure teams to discover adoption challenges, champion purpose use development and privacy/security product adoption.
Bring a strong sense of execution and ownership to the team.
Maintain a proactive, can-do attitude, willing to undertake any necessary task to support the team and ensure successful project outcomes.
Drive continuous improvement in our tooling and processes to drive automation.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of network engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, hardware engineering, or technical product/program management experience.
Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification required.
Experience delivering tech programs or products from inception to delivery.
Knowledge of user needs, gathering requirements, and defining scope.
Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership.
Communication experience and experience working with technical management teams to develop systems, solutions, and products.
Organizational, coordination and multi-tasking experience.
Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems.
Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
Experience working with product teams to build and deliver end-to-end customer focused products with technical knowledge of the underlying platforms and technologies.
Experience with tools like JIRA, Product Board, A-ha!, Version One or similar tools

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer.

Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact leavebenefits@paylocity.com. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.